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Just three days before the Year of the Tiger, that is, at the point of 1 October 28th1in 2022, Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan began to erupt, and the volcanic ash sprayed to a height of about 3,400 meters from the crater.

In fact, the locals are used to erupting in Sakurajima. According to statistics, Sakura Island erupts nearly a thousand times a year, but most of them are rare, and volcanic cloud, which often erupts in small scale, is also a famous local scenic spot. About 26,000 years ago, Sakurajima was just an undersea volcano. Since ancient times, anyone who wants to board Sakura Island must take a boat. It was not until October of A.D. 19 14 (the third year of Taisho) 12 that it was completely changed. On that day, Sakura Island erupted again, and the fiery magma separated the volcanic island from the corner.

When it comes to Kagoshima, we have to mention Tanegashima. Tanegashima, located at the southernmost tip of Kagoshima Prefecture, was the county-level administrative organization at the southernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago before Japan controlled Ryukyu in modern times. Because of Kagoshima's unique geographical location (as long as the south gate of Japan) and many excellent coastal ports, ships from China, the Korean Peninsula and Ryukyu have often come here to carry out economic and trade activities since ancient times. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period in China, a large number of merchant ships sailed along the coastline and arrived in Japan every year. Just in the last century, a large number of Qi cultural relics were unearthed on the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu Island in Japan.

Sakurajima

In fact, it is not just ships from East Asian countries that travel to and from Kagoshima. With the advent of the era of exploration, ships from western European countries have arrived in Japan one after another, completely rewriting the history of Japan.

After entering the16th century, due to the influence of the storm, the Portuguese merchant ship originally intended to go to China finally came to Kagoshima, taught the local people the technology of making iron cannons, and spread Christianity (originally Catholicism).

The introduction of iron cannon and Christianity completely changed Japan. At that time, Japan was in the Warring States period, and the administrative orders of the central government basically lost their appeal throughout Japan. The scuffle of names and the vacuum of rights are very conducive to the spread of foreign cultures. Because of this, the Christian Catholic Church spread rapidly in Japan, even the iron cannon spread widely in Japan, and finally met Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who ended the Warring States Period in Japan.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, due to the prevalence of triangle trade, a slave in Europe, Portuguese and other countries' fleets kept a small number of blacks for their own use while selling. For example, in the ninth year of the Japanese shogunate, that is, A.D. 158 1 year, when Alessandro Valignano, a missionary from Italy, passed through Goa, India and Macau, China, and came to Japan through a route called Naaman trade by the Japanese, there was a black man beside him who was received by Nobuyuki Oda, and this black man was the famous Mizo and became Nobuyuki Oda.

Although Nobutaka Oda committed suicide in the change of Benneng Temple shortly thereafter, and the whereabouts of Misuke were unknown, Akechi Mitsuhide, who launched the coup, failed to replace Nobutaka Oda in the end, but helped Tokugawa Ieyasu instead. It is worth mentioning that after Tokugawa Ieyasu took office, there was a foreign soldier beside him, but this man was a British white soldier. As the representative of the British East India Company in Japan, this person is william adam James (Japanese name is San Pu Pressing Needle, that is,

William Adams

Tokugawa Ieyasu inherited Nobunaga's last wish and ended the Japanese Warring States period. In view of the growing influence of Christianity and European forces in Japan, he felt it necessary to adjust this situation. This is because Tokugawa Ieyasu is worried that external forces such as Western Europe will try to intervene in the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and collude with some ambitious names. However, Tokugawa Ieyasu is unwilling to give up the economic and trade benefits brought by China, North Korea and other East Asian countries and Western European countries. Therefore, after careful consideration, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally announced that it would ban Japanese celebrities from any form of exchanges and cooperation with East Asian and European countries. At the same time, an artificial island was built in the waters near Nagasaki, which was directly managed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and it was a famous small island to trade with other countries.

Nagasaki is a famous port city on the west coast of Kyushu Island, only 800 kilometers away from Shanghai, China. It has been a bridge between China and Japan since ancient times. As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties in China, many Japanese envoys went to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to study, and monks set sail from Nagasaki for China. During the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of businessmen from Fujian, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces went to Japan to do business. According to historical records, there are about 10 thousand people at most. They established Tang towns in Hirado, Fujiang and other places in Nagasaki, which became the place where China people concentrated. Subsequently, Chinese and Western cultures were introduced into Japan through Nagasaki, especially China culture, which had a far-reaching impact on Japan. Some customs, food culture and festivals of Nagasaki people originated from China.

Nagasaki

Before leaving the island, the economic, trade and cultural ties between countries and Japan were mainly in remote households for a long time. In the early Edo period in Japan, this place was a transportation hub area, through which Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands all had close ties with Japan except East Asian countries.

At first, Japan was at peace with other countries, until Notre Dame de Portugal was burned down. The British pretended that the Dutch held Nagasaki to kill its staff. The unscrupulous Japanese of European powers preached Christianity, secretly supported some names against the Tokugawa shogunate, and provided them with advanced weapons and funds. The Tokugawa shogunate was furious when he learned of the incident, and immediately issued a "prohibition order" and a "lock order", which were only allowed in the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands.

This is easy to understand. Japan allowed ships of the Ming Dynasty to travel to and from Japan, but why did it also allow the Netherlands?

Actually, this is easy to understand. The Netherlands at this time is not like Spain, Portugal and other countries. This is a Protestant country. They are not so burdened with religious burdens. They are more keen on developing economic and trade ties than spreading religion. In order to better develop economic and trade cooperation with the Japanese shogunate, the Dutch directly participated in the resistance against Japanese farmers. Not only that, the Dutch also pay special attention to Japanese customs and traditions. At this time, the Dutch put down their airs. People are often sent to Edo to visit the shogun regularly. In the long run, the Dutch in Japan won the trust of the shogunate, and their status was comparable to that of Japan, and the Dutch flag was also allowed to hang on the island. Even when the first French Empire annexed the Netherlands, the flag on the island still stood here, which shows how smart the Dutch are.

Dutch flag on the island

Interestingly, the Portuguese who were forced to leave Japan before also learned from it. By winning the favor of Emperor Jiajing, he helped the local government suppress the rebellion and finally gained the trade privilege in Macao. On the other hand, the Netherlands has taken diametrically opposite measures to China and Japan in Indonesia, and has not consolidated its rule for hundreds of years, which is also the main reason for Indonesia's long-term backwardness.

Japan's shogunate not only gained a lot of economic benefits by going out to the island, but also was in the period of Japan's 200-year closed door, and its science, technology and ideas did not lag far behind. For example, before the change of Benneng Temple broke out, that is, 1582 (Ten Years of Heaven), a mission centered on four teenagers was sent to the Vatican by ōtomo Sōrin, Zhong Jun Omura and Ma Qingxin, the great names of Geely Zhidan in Kyushu, Japan. This event is called the event that Tianzheng sent a youth envoy to Europe. This mission was initiated by Fan Li 'an, who helped Oda Noshin, and returned to Japan on 1590 (Tianzheng 18). The appearance of this mission made many Europeans know the existence of Japan for the first time. This mission brought the European Gutenberg printing press back to Japan, where Japanese books (called Geely Zhidan Edition) were published for the first time.

In addition, Japan gained the advanced ideas and knowledge of Western Confucianism and Lan Xue in Ming Dynasty by going out to the island, which was a dawn of the dark era of Japan's closed door and indirectly led to the emergence of Meiji Restoration.

Settle in Japan

Edwin Deng and his family

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan, whose national strength rose sharply, also acquired a large number of advanced species through its ties with Europe and the United States, which changed the diet structure of Japan and made the height of the Japanese rise rapidly. Meiji government not only laid a good economic foundation for Japanese industrialization through the strategy of planting and breeding industry, but also allocated a lot of funds to improve the diet structure of Japanese people. Among the European and American countries at that time, the United States had the most far-reaching influence on Japan's diet structure, such as/kloc-0 Edwin Dunn (American agronomist) who came to Japan in 873. He spread the technology of beef breeding and dairy processing in Hokkaido, and introduced high-yield dairy cows and Durham beef cattle from the United States, which laid the foundation for the development of animal husbandry in Hokkaido.

Father, please take my knee.

When it comes to the relationship between the United States and Japan in modern times, we have to mention Hawaii. After Meiji Restoration, with the rapid growth of national strength, domestic militaristic forces gradually rose. For Japanese politicians at that time, China was the first choice for foreign expansion. However, due to the small achievements of the Westernization Movement in the Qing court at this time, and the Japanese lost to China twice in the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Meiji government at that time had not made up its mind to fight to the death with the Qing court.

Japan colonized Hawaii.

They prefer to expand eastward to Hawaii rather than westward. At this time, Hawaii is still under the management of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Previously, the British and Russians tried to get their hands on it, but they were both defeated by the Americans until the arrival of the Japanese. /kloc-at the end of 0/9 century, the economic crisis broke out in the United States, and at this time, Japan sent a large number of nationals mixed with veterans to Hawaii (the significance is self-evident). Even sent several warships to "escort". At this time, the American government was unable to stop Japan's expansion in Hawaii, but Americans didn't want to give up. So Americans paid reparations to Japan as the Republic of Hawaii (established by American immigrants with the support of American troops to overthrow the kingdom of Hawaii), supported Japan's anti-Qing war, and attempted to bring disaster to the West. Shortly after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Hawaii officially became.

Republic of Hawaii

Hawaii was incorporated into the United States.

In fact, Japan today is still building artificial islands. This situation is due to Japan's small land and dense population, geographical factors and economic development.

In fact, as early as 1960s, Japan put forward the plan of land reclamation (Tokyo Plan of Ge Tan 1960), but it was put on hold indefinitely because it did not have the conditions for land reclamation at that time.

Japan with a sparse population.

However, because Tokyo needs to meet the needs of urban upgrading, urban expansion, military, industrial, shipping and other aspects at the same time, the scale of the artificial island in Tokyo Bay should be not only grand, but also coordinated and coordinated. However, it should be noted that Japan has been an earthquake-prone area since ancient times. When an earthquake comes, these artificial lands will easily liquefy under the influence of seismic waves.

Today, the artificial island in Tokyo Bay is not only used to house factories, but also has become the residence of some Japanese nationals, and even a large number of commercial centers have moved to the artificial island. What's more, even Tokyo International Airport, Japan's largest civil aviation airport, has moved. It is worth mentioning that Tokyo Disneyland is also built on these artificial islands. This large-scale and fully functional artificial island group is undoubtedly the best business card to show Japan's industrial strength.

Moreover, the Japanese people have a long-standing sense of urgency. The Sinking of Japan is not only a movie, but also the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all Japanese people. The reason why Japan is so keen on building artificial islands is that it hopes to build an "unsinkable artificial continent" by relying on science and technology when the doomsday crisis comes, which is also the "unsinkable dream" that the Japanese want to pass down from generation to generation.

Japanese artificial island

Stills of the movie "Japan Sinks"